Best anchorages and harbours in United States

Marina Jack Mooring Fields

Mooring buoy field off downtown Sarasota on Florida's Gulf coast, with around 60 numbered moorings on a sand bottom.

• Paid
• Sheltered N, NE, E, SE

Safe Harbor Kittery Point

Marina in the Back Channel of the Piscataqua River, on the Maine side of the river opposite Portsmouth, New Hampshire, with direct open access to the Gulf of Maine.

Wharfinger Building and Eureka Public Marina

Municipal marina on the Eureka waterfront in Humboldt Bay, north-west California, with the Wharfinger Building housing the marina office at the west end of the complex.

Fort Flagert State Park Dock

Seasonal moorage dock at Fort Flagler Historical State Park, on the north tip of Marrowstone Island at the entrance to Admiralty Inlet, 1.9 NM south-east of Port Townsend.

Goddard Memorial State Park

Anchorage off Goddard Memorial State Park, on the shore of Greenwich Cove and Greenwich Bay at Warwick, Rhode Island.

• Sheltered SW, S, SE

Neuse River

Anchorage on the Neuse River off New Bern, North Carolina, where the Neuse meets the Trent River, on a mud bottom.

• Sheltered NW, NE, W, E, SW

Pier 7 Resort Marina

Large marina with a deep-water basin on the South River at Edgewater, Maryland, near Annapolis on Chesapeake Bay.

Schooner Bay

Anchorage in the eastern part of Christiansted harbour on St. Croix, between the town waterfront and Gallows Bay.

• Sheltered W, E, SW, S, SE

Young's Boat Yard

Family-run boatyard on Jones Creek at the mouth of the Patapsco River, Sparrows Point, Maryland.

Annisquam Yacht Club

Private sailing club on the Annisquam River at Annisquam village, Gloucester, Massachusetts, founded in 1896.

Bahía de Mayagüez

Anchorage in Mayagüez Bay, off the city of Mayagüez on the west coast of Puerto Rico, 8 NM north of Puerto Real.

• Sheltered NE, E, SE

Offatts Bayou

Anchorage in a bayou on the south side of Galveston Island, Texas, with sand and mud bottom and protection from the S and SW.

• Sheltered SW, S, SE

Timber point

Anchorage off Timber Point on Elk Neck, in the upper Chesapeake Bay near the mouth of the Bohemia River, Maryland.

• Sheltered NW, W, SW

Town Creek

Anchorage in Town Creek at Oxford, a tributary of the Tred Avon River on Maryland's Eastern Shore, with a mud bottom.

• Sheltered NW, NE, W, E, SW, S, SE

Pleasant Harbor Marina Resort

Full-service marina in a cove on the western shore of Hood Canal at Brinnon, backed by the Olympic National Forest.

Pontchartrain Landing Marina

Marina and RV resort in the Seabrook district of New Orleans, at the junction of the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal and Lake Pontchartrain.

Indian Rock

Open anchorage off Santa Catalina Island, California, on a sand bottom. It lies roughly 19 nautical miles south-west of San Pedro.

• Sheltered S, SW, W

Wrangell Airport

Anchorage off the Wrangell Airport shore on the east side of Wrangell Island, along Zimovia Strait in South-East Alaska.

• Sheltered SW, S, SE

Catalina Harbor

Mooring off the West End of Santa Catalina Island, California, near Howland's Landing, set on a sand bottom with all-round shelter.

• Sheltered N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, W, NW

La Parguera

Anchorage 0.6 NM east of the village of La Parguera, on the south-west coast of Puerto Rico, inside the La Parguera nature reserve.

• Sheltered NW, N, NE, E

Ratz Harbor

Bay indenting the north-east coast of Prince of Wales Island on the west side of Clarence Strait, Southeast Alaska.

• Sheltered W, E, SW, S, SE

Shipyard Marina

Marina on the Hoboken waterfront of the Hudson River, facing the Manhattan skyline across the water.

Big Island

Anchorage near the mouth of the Alligator River on the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, coastal North Carolina.

• Sheltered W, SW, S, SE

Salt Ponds Marina Resort

Large marina at the Salt Ponds inlet in Hampton, Virginia, with direct access to Chesapeake Bay.

Dolphin Marina

Family-run marina at the tip of Basin Point in South Harpswell, in the heart of Casco Bay, Maine.

Safe Harbor New England Boatworks

Boatyard and marina at the north end of Aquidneck Island, in Portsmouth on the East Passage of Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island.

Cable marine west

Full-service boatyard on the New River, Fort Lauderdale, on the south bank just west of the Andrews Avenue bridge.

West Neck Harbor

Sheltered anchorage off the south-west shore of Shelter Island, in the Peconic estuary of eastern Long Island, New York.

• Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, E, SW, S, SE

Kiptopeke

Anchorage at Kiptopeke on the lower Eastern Shore of Virginia, near Cape Charles, mud bottom, sheltered behind a line of sunken concrete ships.

• Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, E, SW, S, SE

Stamford Harbour

Outer harbour anchorage at Stamford on the Connecticut shore of Long Island Sound, about 33 miles east of New York.

• Sheltered NW, N, NE, E